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12 Books to Diversify Your Reading

Sometimes we can get in a reading rut and find it difficult to break out of our comfort zones. But it's a good idea to shake things up every now and then and read an author or a genre we normally wouldn't consider, if only for the benefit of expanding our view of the world. … Continue reading 12 Books to Diversify Your Reading

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April 8, 2020African American, Alternate history, Books, Brooke Bolander, Chinese American, David Demchuk, Diversity, Elephants, Ellen Klages, Fantastic fiction, Gay and Lesbian, Horror, Hye-Young Pyun, Korean Literature, Lara Elena Donnelly, Margaret Killjoy, Molly Tanzer, Native American, Novellas, Queer, Reading list, Sarah Gailey, Stephen Graham Jones, Tade Thompson, Ukraine, Victor LaValle, Women charactersLeave a comment
Best Books of 2010s

Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2018 Novels

This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2018.  The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander (2018) I thought this was a lovely short book with a strong message of empowerment. The narrative weaves together the perspectives from prehistory, … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2018 Novels

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January 5, 2020December 13, 2019Alyson Hagy, An Ocean of Minutes, Apocalyptic literature, Brooke Bolander, Christine Mangan, Contemporary fiction, Domestic suspense, Dystopia, Elevation, Ghost stories, Horror, Laura Purcell, My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Novellas, Ottessa Moshfegh, Reading women, Science fiction, Scribe, Semiosis, Stephen King, Sue Burke, Tangerine, The Gone World, The Only Harmless Great Thing, The Outsider, The Silent Companions, Thea Lim, Time travel, Tom SweterlitschLeave a comment
Best Books of 2010s

Favorite Books of the 2010s: Strange Weather by Joe Hill

This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Strange Weather: Four Short Novels by Joe Hill (2017) I agree with what Hill writes in his afterword about short novels: I am drawn to them more and more, especially in the horror genre, as they seem to be just the … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Strange Weather by Joe Hill

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December 31, 2019December 13, 20192010s, Horror, Joe Hill, Novellas, Strange WeatherLeave a comment
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Halloween Reading

Autumn is my favorite time of year. The crisp weather, the leaves turning, the light getting slantier--this is the perfect time to settle in with a spooky story, which happens to be my favorite kind of story. And even though Halloween is tomorrow, it's not too late to get your spook on. Here are few … Continue reading Halloween Reading

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October 30, 2017Books, Halloween, Horror, John Langan, Mapping the Interior, Novellas, Peter Straub, Pork Pie Hat, Stephen Graham Jones, The Devil in Silver, The Fisherman, Victor LaValleLeave a comment
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Recommended Reading: Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin

I had been trying to recommend a new read each month, and I still fell behind on my recommendations. So of course I'm upping my goal to recommending a new read each week! Starting with this one... Does Ursula K. Le Guin write bad books? If so, I haven't found them. While this collection of … Continue reading Recommended Reading: Four Ways to Forgiveness by Ursula K. Le Guin

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July 29, 2016August 13, 2017Four Ways to Forgiveness, Hainish, Novellas, Recommended Reading, Science fiction, Ursula K Le GuinLeave a comment
Reading

Reading Journal: Beginning of April

It's been over a month since I've posted a reading journal update. Most of my reading has lately not-so-inspiring--although I did enjoy reading Who Fears Death by Nnedi Okorafor so much that I wrote a rather long response to it. Another post-apocalyptic book I enjoyed was Far North by Marcel Theroux. It is set in post-climate change Siberia and … Continue reading Reading Journal: Beginning of April

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April 7, 2016May 22, 2017A Head Full of Ghosts, Alexandra Sokoloff, Bad Wizard, Benjamin Percy, Far North, Horror, Horror by women, HP Lovecraft, James Maxey, John Scalzi, Kathe Koja, Literary homages, Lock In, Marcel Theroux, New fiction, NNedi Okorafor, Novellas, Paul Tremblay, Post-apocalyptic fiction, Reading, Scott Hawkins, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Cipher, The Dead Lands, The Horror at Red Hook, The Library at Mount Char, The Unseen, Victor LaValle, Who Fears DeathLeave a comment

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